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2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Film (B.A.)


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Bachelor of Arts in Film

The Film Major is a hybrid four-year program combining film theory, aesthetics, and practice. The program aims to graduate multi-skilled filmmakers, film practitioners, and researchers through comprehensive training and courses that adopt a cross-disciplinary approach to film theory and production, forming an integral vision of the film as a medium. The program offers extensive exposure to different film production crafts while staying up-to-date with the fast-changing film language. Our students are mentored by a team of masterful, award-winning, experienced, and diverse faculty of scholars, thinkers, filmmakers, and film practitioners who cover a wide range of disciplines in film studies and practice.

Knowledge exchange and cultural activities within the program are fostered through a solid local, regional, and international film-related network that also creates great opportunities for students to present their work locally and worldwide. Permanent interaction between students and faculty is highly encouraged and results in a dynamic learning environment that seeds the collective practice of filmmaking while motivating students to explore their singular cinematic voices.

Declaration of the Film Major

Students are eligible to declare a Film major after completing:

  • FILM 2120  with a minimum grade of ‘B’

and

A decision regarding the declaration is made following a portfolio-based interview with the applicant.

Students who did not pass the first interview can sit for another one after they complete a third Introductory Required Course (FILM 2121  or FILM 2123 ) with a minimum grade of ‘B’. The decision that follows the second interview is final.

Major Requirements

A total of 120 credits are required for the bachelor’s degree in Film.

Core Curriculum (40 credits)


Concentration Requirements (57 - 60 credits)


2. Film Theory & Aesthetics (18 credits)


3. Film Production (18 credits)


5. Collateral Requirements (9 credits)


Choose THREE courses in THTR, DSGN, ARTV, MUSC, or ECLT in consultation with your advisor.

Electives (20 - 23 credits)


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